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Schedule

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Meetings and topics and readings and assignments. Exact schedule subject to change and modification as necessary.

Part One: Foundations: Cultural Heritage & Information

in which we lay the groundwork for what this course will explore, its larger contexts, and what the major research questions are.

Jan 6

  • 1.1 Cultural Heritage and its Institutions
  • 1.2 Legal, Ethical Frameworks for Cultural Heritage

Jan 13

  • 1.3 Collectors and Collecting; The Bonetrade
  • 1.4 Informatics and Organizing Cultural Heritage

Jan 20

  • Visit to the Canadian Museum of History

Part Two: Representations

in which we consider the ways cultural heritage is represented and the creative work of curation and interpretation

Jan 27

  • Visit to the Museum of Nature, Aylmer facility

Feb 3

  • Visit to the Canada Science and Technology Museum, new building

Feb 10

  • 2.1 Ownership and Authority: Aaliyah, Micah
  • 2.2 Preservation & Curation: Chloe

Feb 17 No Class; Reading Week

Feb 24

  • 2.3 Interpretation: Meghan, Emilee
  • 2.4 Online Exhibits: Cooked Data: Elise

Mar 02

  • 2.5 APIs and Catalogues: Raw Data?: AVAILABLE
  • Datasette and other practical matters: Prof. Graham

Mar 09

  • 2.6 Metadata & Paradata: Jess
  • 2.7 Linked Open Data: AVAILABLE

Part Three: Research Creation

in which we develop our own cultural heritage informatics infrastructure and explore the ways such infrastructure permits research and creativity

Mar 16

  • 3.1 Social Media & Audience Research, Ethics & Practice: Alina
  • 3.2 Web Archives: Maggie, Malinda

Mar 23

  • 3.3 Computational Creativity: Arianna

Part Four: Releasing: The HeritageJam

in which we pull it all together and use the infrastructure we have built as the launching pad for creative computational engagements with these heritage materials as we plan and execute HeritageJam

Mar 30

  • 4.1 Budgeting and Bookkeeping (The Business of Museums): Marvin
  • 4.2 Marketing Heritage: Riley
  • Holding On-Campus Events (security & other considerations): Prof. Graham

Apr 06

  • 4.3 Measuring Engagement & Analytics: AVAILABLE

exact date to be determined

  • 4.4 HeritageJam
  • 4.5 HeritageJam